Religion; Vasubandhu; Systematics; Rational; Abhidharma; Asia
摘要
Of all the founders of world religions, the buddha alone presented his teachings systematically,as the four noble truths. his emphasis was soteriological,not ontological. though he discouraged speculation,his teaching evolved into a maze of tenets, known as the abhidharma. his disciples found no pattern more effective for organizing these tenets architectonically than the truths. but dharmasri reduced the truths to a tri-unitary,ontological concept,reality (as such, as phenomenal,as transcendental). vasubandhu perfected dharmasri's ideas in his definitive summa of buddhist doctrine,the abhidharmakosa.